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business district and to improve safety along Chunon Street and NC 86. The <br />workgroup prioritized the seven options in order of preference: <br />1. Elizabeth Brady alignment 3, which does not cross the river, goes across <br />ridge (IF this is the least impact to the river) <br />2. Elizabeth Brady alignment 2 (averts racetrack, crosses river) <br />3. (original) Elizabeth Brady alignment 1 <br />4. Lawrence Road (with 86 connector) — but different function from above <br />5. Western bypass <br />6. No build <br />Y. When Chumm St. from 70 business to 70 bypass <br />Elizabeth Brady Road Extension should be treated as a local road, not a <br />bypass. The location of Elaabetli Brady Road is not adequate for a bypass. <br />NCDOT should extend the study area for a bypass to include the Hillsborough <br />50 -Year Water and Sewer Boundary. One option for a bypass would follow <br />the study area boundary for project U -3808. using existing roads where <br />passible and with an interchange on 1.85 east of Lawrence Road. Rao, <br />please refer to to attached EDD Transportation Wcrkgroup <br />recommendations and comments. <br />2) 85 in Orange Courov [o <br />NC 147 (Buck Dean Freeway) in Durham County — Orange County requests <br />that 1-3306 Section A and 1 -3306 Section B be divided into two separate <br />projects and programmed separately in the TIP. <br />Project planning and design for this facility is in progress. Orange County <br />requests that the development of the Major Investment Study and <br />Environmental Impact Statement for this project include assurance that the <br />project will not have detrimental land use impacts to the Orange County <br />Comprehensive Plan. Orange County is opposed to any widening of 1 -00 <br />through Orange County unless there Is a commitment by NCDOT ro provide <br />HOV andfor dedicated bus lanes. <br />COMMENTS ON OTHER TIP PROJECTS INITIATED BY NCDOT <br />1) 1305 widening of l -85t lanes and! reconnittingtion of insinithami from I- <br />4g at Hillshorouah 0 Durham County I ins: Orange County is opposed to any <br />widening of 1-95 through Orange County unless there is a commitment by <br />NCDOT to provide HOV andlor dedicated bus lanes. <br />Even though this project remains an 'UNFUNDED PROJECT", Orange <br />County requests that its staff be allowed to participate in Me planning of the <br />facility. The County is specifically interested in the following Infrastructure <br />impmvemaMa as May relate to the I -85fUS 70 Economic Development <br />District: <br />